[newspaper clipping:]
"FAIRBANKS DAILY NEWS
JUDGE WICKERSHAM.
With the assumption of his duties
as judge of the Third division, by
Silas H. Reid, James Wickersham is
released from the obligations of his
former office and again assumes the
labors of a good citizen.
The News, together with a large
majority of the Tanana citizens,
views with regret the retirement of
James Wickersham to private life.
For years he has been subjected to
one of the fiercest assaults that have
ever been made upon a man's char-
acter, both as regards his public and
private acts. That he, or any man,
should be able to withstand such an
unmerciful and unprincipled attack
is a matter of comment. Yet through
it all this man has stood unafraid
and unscathed.
The fight that was made on Judge
Wickersham has been the cause of
more dissension among the people of
this division than all other causes
combined. That it is over has caused
a sigh of relief to arise from every
man in the district. That the man
whose character was attacked has
come out of the fray with a clean
slate is a matter of pride to all.
In the years to come, when the
smoke of battle has cleared away
and people are able to look at the
acts of Judge Wickersham and view his
record without emotion, the verdict
of the Alaskan historian will be that
he was a man to whom the adjective
great must be applied; that he is the
one who stands pre-eminent among
his contemporaries for the good he
has accomplished."